NEW SEASON REQUIRES NEW STRENGTH

In a year, we experience four seasons. As one season transitions into another, we notice signs: winds blow, clouds thunder, rain pours, temperatures shift. Along with this, we also change our clothes. No one wears winter garments in summer, nor summer outfits in winter. Likewise, with each season, people often fall sick due to the new conditions.

Let’s take this natural transition and reflect it into the spiritual realm.

Experiencing a Transition?

Just as the physical world is real and tangible, the spiritual realm is just as real: even more so. The Bible shows us that what manifests in the physical often begins in the spiritual. It’s all about where our attention and belief lie. What we see around us is often an echo of what’s already happening in the unseen.

As someone who believes in Jesus Christ as a personal Lord and Savior, we carry the Holy Spirit within us:

1 Corinthians 6:19 (NIV)

“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own?”

This means we are not just physical beings: we are spiritual beings living in a physical body, walking through spiritual seasons.

NEW SEASON REQUIRES NEW STRENGTH

New Seasons Require New Strength

Similarly, our spiritual lives require fresh strength for each new season. The strength that carried you as an assistant may not be enough when you’re called to lead. Look at Joshua. He spent years under Moses’ leadership. However, when Moses died, God chose Joshua to lead the Israelites.

Imagine the pressure! The expectations! The doubts! But God didn’t remove the responsibility: He empowered Joshua with a command:

Joshua 1:6-7 (NIV)

“Be strong and courageous... Be strong and very courageous.”

God didn’t say, “I’ll make it easy.”

He said, “Be strong.”

Not once, but multiple times.

Why? Because strength is what sustains us through transition. Joshua may have wanted comfort, but God offered courage. What if what you’re calling stress is actually what God has called you to step into? What if the discomfort you feel is the path to your destiny?

Shift the Prayer

Instead of praying, “Lord, remove this pressure,”

let your prayer be:

“Lord, increase my strength.”

God doesn’t always change the season, but He changes you for the season.

Let's reflect on a few verses

Jeremiah 29:11

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord... “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Romans 8:28

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.”

Isaiah 55:8-9

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.

Even Jesus, during His time on earth, had to grow in strength for what He was called to do.

Hebrews 5:8-9 says:

Though He was a Son, He learned obedience through what He suffered. And being made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him

New seasons can feel like storms, cocoons, or even deserts. But remember: God does not abandon you in transition: He strengthens you in it.

So if you’re in a season of uncertainty, change, or waiting-;

Don’t give up. Don’t give in.

Instead, lift your eyes and say:

Lord, I receive the strength I need for this season.”

Because new seasons require new strength.

And in Christ, you have it.

Spiritual Seasons Exist Too

Just as we dress and prepare for each natural season, we must also prepare ourselves spiritually for the seasons God takes us through. Transitions often bring discomfort, confusion, and even a sense of loss. You may feel “stagnant,” or like you’re “lost in your own world.” But what if this is not a dead end: but a cocoon?

Let’s reflect on the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly.

The caterpillar crawls in dust and dirt, heavy and slow. Then one day, it enters a cocoon: a place of silence, stillness, and isolation. In this stage, it may seem like nothing is happening, or worse, like everything is falling apart. But inside, transformation is taking place.

The cocoon cracks. Pain comes. Change demands strength. But if the caterpillar doesn’t endure the process, it can’t emerge as the beautiful butterfly it was always meant to be. From crawling in the dirt, it begins to fly among flowers, sipping sweet nectar. But none of it happens without the strength to go through the middle phase.